Over the past few weeks, 600 people have gotten salmonella from tomatoes, and the government has launched an international search for the source of the infection.
Over the past 25 years, 1,000,000 Americans have gotten CFS, and the government seemingly could not care less. Money designated for CFS research was used for something else, discovered, repaid, and then a second time used for something else!
Why does salmonella -- which is usually just a matter of a few days of digestive problems -- deserving of this multi-million-dollar investigation, while a disease that results in permanent disability has to beg for every research dollar?
The answer is clear to anyone who has read "Osler's Web" ... one of the experts eventually realized "they don't WANT to find anything." Finding proof that CFS exists would result in proof that CDC lied all along.
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According to Dorothy Wall, author of Encounters with the Invisible,
“In 2003, more than twenty years after the first CFS patients ... the total federal expenditure for CFS research – from both the NIH and CDC – was still a paltry $16 million. By contrast, according to its own documents, the NIH alone spent $99 million on multiple sclerosis in 2003, an illness affecting half as many people.”
Yet, the experts are clear that the level of disability in CFS is equivalent to the disability of MS, and therefore, it would seem fair that CFS should receive at least equal research funding. And, really, since it afects twice as many people, true equality would require spending twice as much on CFS as on MS.
I'm not holding my breath.
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